Monthly Archives: April 2016

VMware Continuent – End of Availability
Effective May 4, 2016, your customers will no longer be able to purchase additional licenses of VMware Continuent. However, existing customers will receive technical support through End of General Support (EOGS), December 31, 2018.

vRealize Air Compliance – End of Availability
On March 1, 2016, we announced the End of Availability of VMware vRealize Air Compliance. Customers are no longer able to purchase this service offering or renew service contracts. We appreciate your support and any opportunities that you may have identified for the service, however please begin working with your customers on an alternative solution.

Effective this month, the Cross-Sell/Up-Sell (XSUS) qualified leads will route to the Inside Sales Rep team for follow-up. Unqualified leads will continue to be visible in the Renewals Center. Since Crossfire Go-Live on Aug. 7, 2015 we have had several months to track activity against qualified XSUS leads passed to partners via Partner Central. Based upon the data captured we are making this adjustment to improve the workflow for qualified leads.

Effective May 3, 2016, new VMware NSX pricing and packaging offerings will be Standard, Advanced and Enterprise. These packages open new market segments and opportunities by matching your customer’s requirements to the NSX capabilities of: Automation, Security and Application Continuity.

At VMworld 2015, we announced that we would work together with Pivotal on a combined solution for cloud-native applications. Today we are thrilled to announce the first offering resulting from this work, an enterprise cloud-native stack featuring Pivotal Cloud Foundry and VMware Photon Platform. Read Kit Colbert’s post to learn more about the platform and infrastructure of this new, integrated solution. The Pivotal-VMware cloud-native stack offers unparalleled simplicity and power that enables your organization to deliver cloud-native apps quicker, easier, and with greater efficiency.

Download these new Sales Readiness Briefcases (interactive PDFs). They will prepare you for more meaningful conversations with your customers and save you valuable time, so that you can focus your energy where it packs the most punch instead of chasing down content, presentations or references. This is just the first of many partner-oriented Sales Readiness Briefcases that will become available throughout the quarter, so stay tuned.

You and your customers are invited to register for this half-day virtual conference. Gain the knowledge, insight, and tools to fulfill your 2016 IT goals and inspire IT innovation within. Featured speakers include CEO Pat Gelsinger and CTO Chris Wolf on how to transform your business from cloud to device. Plus, explore new VMware solutions and engage with experts in technical chat sessions.